Sunday, August 07, 2005
Weekend Playgroup
Weekend with company is always fun. My husband went river rafting with a couple of our friends yesterday at the American River in Coloma. We used to go every year but its different this time around.Two years ago, we went with a bunch of people and had 6 rafts all to our group. A friend of our friend organizes this run during summer, every weekend for I think 2 months. He rents all the rafts, oars, reserves the campsite then divides the expenses among the rafters. Really fun group.
This year, some of us had to pass up the fun for the same reason. We all became moms. Haaaaaayy... the joys of motherhood. Of course the dads went and the moms were left behind to take care of more important matters. Aside from taking care of our kids, we had to prepare dinner for the exhausted rafters. Women usually lose the term "exhaustion" in their vocabulary once they're faced with a screaming baby.
So, with 3 moms and 3 active kids left behind, I thought we were up for the fear factor moms edition challenge! Just kidding. Well, we had our own entertainment. We set up a big kiddie pool that the kids enjoyed, a much needed kiddie sprinkler for the triple digit weather (yes, it was scorching HOT), put out all the toys and had the tv turned on to the disney channel. Unfortunately, I don't think they even glanced at the tv. There were times when they had this chain reaction cries. Of course, my baby cried the most because he thinks he owns every single cell in me. The kids enjoyed the pool even if the water was only about 4inches deep. We had to keep it low since we have a baby who's not walking yet, a baby who just started walking and a 2yr old toddler.
In between all this chaos, I was trying to cook dinner.
Finally around 8:30pm, the rafters got home. They were all tired and roasted from the heat, and they were all hungry. They were also excited to tell me about my "serious" husband who didn't hold back on letting out the child in him during the run. They kept telling me that they've never seen that side of him before. I'm glad it was obvious he had fun. Everybody had a good dinner with baby back ribs in the menu. Mmmm... my favorite!! But for the moms, we told them that we felt like we also went rafting after a full day with very active dependent kids.
Despite the exhaustion, I have to say I had so much fun having guests specially kids my son's age coming over to visit. I also miss seeing my friends from the bay area since we moved to Lincoln. I have no regrets moving out here. In fact, I don't want to move back there but most of my friends who live there are new moms just like me.
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